The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.

The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.

America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.

It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.